Re: session overwriting global

Horváth Károly wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very strange problem. > I am the new developer of an existing site. They have a custom session > handler that stores the session in the database. The application > connects to the database, registers the session handler with > session_set_save_handler. Nothing interesting so far. > Then it calls session_start which updates one of the global variables!!! > I checked the session read(..) method and just before returning the > global is untocuhed. > Can anybody explain how could that happen? > > additional info: > the global variable is also stored in the session. > php 4.4.9, the problem only occurs on the dev server and not on the live > site, and only with https! as far as we know the server configurations > are identical except that that on the dev server we have an ssl > certificate which is not verified so the browser shows the usual > warning/accept certificate message. > register_globals = On in php.ini? -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com